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WILLIAM J. FLYNN...
Lost Command, an Errol Flynn movie made without Errol Flynn, looks like one of those war pictures they used to print on bubble-gum cards...
...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
That was the way Errol Flynn did it in They Died With Their Boots On in 1941. How George Custer himself did it 90 years ago last month-on June 25, 1876-is still a good question, since there were no survivors of Custer's command. Why the vain lieutenant colonel, who at 24 had been a major general in the Civil War, got into such a predicament in the first place, and especially why the Sioux pounced on him with such ferocity, has always been debated. Now these two small but impressively researched books offer a concise account...
SNAFFLING means rounding up a group for a party at which BASH, a devastating blend of fruit juice, rum and Scotch, is the preferred drink. Bars like the Sea Turtle in Ocean Beach and Flynn's in Ocean Bay Park are good for snaffling from 10 p.m. on. So is the SIXISH, a bring-your-own cocktail party that starts at 7 p.m., seems to move of its own accord from one grouper house to another...